Newswise — BETHESDA, MD – The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is proud to name ten early-career scientists—four graduate students and six postdoctoral researchers—as Fall 2015 recipients of GSA’s DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics. The award provides a $1,000 travel grant for each recipient to attend any national or international meeting, conference, or laboratory course that will enhance his or her career.
"We are pleased to support these early-career scientists in attending conferences and meetings that will contribute to their professional development," said Adam P. Fagen, PhD, GSA's Executive Director. "The winners of this award are already accomplished researchers. We look forward to their ongoing contributions to our community."
The DeLill Nasser Award was established by GSA in 2001 to honor its namesake, DeLill Nasser (1929–2000), a long-time GSA member who provided critical support to many early-career researchers during her 22 years as program director in eukaryotic genetics at the National Science Foundation. The winners of the Fall 2015 DeLill Nasser Award and the conferences they will travel to are:
Graduate student winners
 | Keir Balla, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA |
 | Cara Brand, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA |
 | Sarah Deng, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA |
 | Kevin Wei, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
Postdoctoral winners
 | Carol Myrick Anderson, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA |
 | Patricia Jumbo Lucioni, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA |
 | Hannah Seidel, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA |
 | Hagen Tilgner, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
 | Jeremy Yoder, PhD, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA |
 | Qi Zhou, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA |
GSA names recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award in two rounds per year. Applications are open to GSA members who are either graduate students or postdocs and who demonstrate excellence in genetics research, with an emphasis on productivity. Since the formation of this award in 2002, more than 100 researchers have received funding for travel to further their career goals and enhance their education. The program is supported by GSA, and with charitable donations from members of the genetics community. For more information about the DeLill Nasser Award, please see http://www.genetics-gsa.org/awards/delill.shtml.
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About the Genetics Society of America (GSA)
Founded in 1931, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) is the professional scientific society for genetics researchers and educators. The Society’s more than 5,000 members worldwide work to deepen our understanding of the living world by advancing the field of genetics, from the molecular to the population level. GSA promotes research and fosters communication through a number of GSA-sponsored conferences including regular meetings that focus on particular model organisms. GSA publishes two peer-reviewed, peer-edited scholarly journals: GENETICS, which has published high quality original research across the breadth of the field since 1916, and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, an open-access journal launched in 2011 to disseminate high quality foundational research in genetics and genomics. The Society also has a deep commitment to education and fostering the next generation of scholars in the field. For more information about GSA, please visit www.genetics-gsa.org.
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